3.16.2012

Fun Friday: 35 Bonding Activities for Moms and Kids

Readers' Nook: Fun Friday FeatureMy Mom-Friday Readers' Nook is a section dedicated to selected and compiled contributions from My Mom-Friday readers and followers, as well as featured posts from invited guest bloggers.

Are you a busy mom?

Whether you stay at home, work at home, or work in an office, your constant challenge is to do everything. Maintain your home. Meet deadlines. Satisfy clients. Care for your family.

With such a juggling act, it's easy to put off something valuable: spending quality time with children.

Here are easy, fun and educational activities you can do with your little angels. The good part is they're either free or low-cost.

Paper Boats image: Creative Commons / Flickr from mikecogh

Note: The goal is to spend as much time with the kids as possible. But let's get real here, sometimes the only free time you have is the weekend. Schedule at least two activities with your precious ones per week. Make them count.

Unique activities that allow you and your children to spend quality time together:

Hunt for (friendly) monsters under the bed

Hide from daddy under the bed

Clear out closets for old clothes and donate them

Look for bugs in the garden (no burning them)

Cook breakfast for the yayas or caretakers

Take a walk outside the village or park, name all the plants and bugs you see

For children, what matters most is that you're 100% focused on them. No phones, no emails, no work or any other distractions. Just good old quality time.

What about you? What special activities do you do to spend quality time with your kids?

Anne Mercado is the quirky author behind 'Green Eggs & Moms', which offers clever parenting tips and news to keep moms with young kids sane. When she's not hunched over the computer working, you can find her either counting down to ten to get her kiddo to move faster, or reading a horror book. She also loves vampires and zombies.

I would like to thank Anne for being a regular reader of this blog, and who generously shared these simple, fun, and creative ideas for our bonding time with kids. Every family could definitely do several of these activities while kids are home over the summer vacation, or any given day.

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